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The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical sub... |
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University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Pogson Smith, W. G. (William George)
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xxxi, 557 p. :
Topics: Political science, State, The
Topics: Political science, State, The
Previously published as: On the origin of species by means of natural selection
Topics: Evolution, Natural selection
Topics: Evolution, Natural selection
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Topics: Political science, Political ethics
Topics: Political science, Political ethics
New York Public Library
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Aesop; Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley); Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
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eye 21,819
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xxix, 223p. 21 cm
Topic: Fables
Topic: Fables
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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Hippocrates; Heraclitus, of Ephesus; Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel), 1876-1963; Potter, Paul, 1944-; Withington, E. T. (Edward Theodore); Smith, Wesley D., 1930-
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Hoeniger, F. David
Topics: Hippocrates, Medicine, Medicine, Greek and Roman
Topics: Hippocrates, Medicine, Medicine, Greek and Roman
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533; Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915
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Topics: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Europe -- History 476-1492
Topics: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Europe -- History 476-1492
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
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Topic: Literature
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Topic: Literature
vi, 136 p. :
Eighty-two fables, with a short history of the Aesopic fable at the beginning
Topic: Fables
Topic: Fables
California Digital Library
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Forman, Alfred, 1840-1925; Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917; Todhunter, John, 1839-1916
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Microopaque
Topic: Cenci, Beatrice, 1577-1599
Topic: Cenci, Beatrice, 1577-1599
New York Public Library
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Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863; Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859; Bell, R. Anning, ill
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A collection of forty-nine tales by the Grimm brothers
Topics: Fairy tales, Folklore -- Germany
Topics: Fairy tales, Folklore -- Germany
[1] leaf of plate, 337 p. :
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"This ed. has been carefully edited and abridged for the use of schools."--Pref. note
Topic: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Topic: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
Topic: Literature
Topic: Literature
xviii, 110 p., 1 l. 21 cm
Topics: Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons
Topics: Epic poetry, English (Old), Monsters, Dragons
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Topics: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836), Geology, Natural history, Voyages around the world, South America --...
Topics: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836), Geology, Natural history, Voyages around the world, South America --...
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
454 p
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Topics: Voyages and travels, Sailors
Topics: Voyages and travels, Sailors
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Pliny, the Younger; Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley, 1843-1906; Melmoth, William, 1710?-1799; Bosanquet, Frederick Charles Tindal
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v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
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Topic: Freedom of the press
Topic: Freedom of the press
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie), 1800-1882; Benham, William, 1831-1910
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California Digital Library
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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
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Publisher's violet sand-grain cloth over boards, blocked in gold and blind
Topic: Children's stories, Danish
Topic: Children's stories, Danish
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
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v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=zeKyiZFuxVgC&oe=UTF-8
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=zeKyiZFuxVgC&oe=UTF-8
California Digital Library
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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681; Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886
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vi, 229 p. ; 18 cm
New York Public Library
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Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683; Zouch, Thomas, 1737-1815
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Lenox
Topics: Donne, John, 1572-1631, Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639, Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Herbert,...
Topics: Donne, John, 1572-1631, Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639, Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Herbert,...
v. 1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude/William Penn--v. 2. Apology, Phaedo and Crito/Plato; Golden sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius--v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis/Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on education/John Milton; Religio Medici/Sir Thomas Browne--v. 4. Complete poems of John Milton--v. 5. Essays and English traits/R. W. Emerson--v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns--v. 7. Confessions of...
Topic: Literature
Topic: Literature
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616; Jarvis, Charles, 1675?-1739; Johannot, Tony, 1803-1852
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
xxiii, 182 p. ; 18 cm. --
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Topic: Knowledge, Theory of
Topic: Knowledge, Theory of
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Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Woolman, John, 1720-1772; Whittler, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
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viii, 315 p
Princeton Theological Seminary
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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lx, 260 p. 22 cm
Topics: Equality, Natural law, Political science
Topics: Equality, Natural law, Political science
139 p. 18 cm
149, [12] p. 18 cm
Topics: English literature -- 18th century History and criticism, Great Britain -- Intellectual life, Great...
Topics: English literature -- 18th century History and criticism, Great Britain -- Intellectual life, Great...
v. 1. Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola -- v. 2. Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus -- v. 3. Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus -- v. 4. Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla -- v. 5. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus -- v. 6. dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus -- v. 7. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar -- v. 8. Sertorios and Eumenes. Phocion and Cato the Younger -- v. 9....
At head of title: Musica ecclesiastica
Topic: Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471
Topic: Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
v. 1. From Chaucer to Gray. v. 2. From Collins to Fitzgerald. v. 3. From Tennyson to Whitman
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Topic: English poetry
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Topic: English poetry
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
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[pt. 3] Translation
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684; Henning, George Neely, 1871-
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The Harvard Classics
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Herodotus; Tacitus, Cornelius; Nichols, Philip, 16th cent; Pretty, Francis; Biggs, Walter, d. 1585?; Haies, Edward, fl. 1580; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618; Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915; Gordon, Thomas, d. 1750, tr
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An account of Egypt, by Herodotus, tr. by G.C. Macaulay.--Tacitus on Germany, tr. by T. Gordon.--Sir Francis Drake revived, by P. Nicols.--Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage round the world, by F. Pretty.--Drake's great Armada, by Captain W. Biggs.--Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland, by E. Hayes.--The discovery of Guiana, by Sir W. Raleigh
Topic: Voyages and travels
Topic: Voyages and travels
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
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At head of title: Revised edition, with helps to study
Topics: English essays, American essays
Topics: English essays, American essays
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
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The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems Songs & Choruses, Hymns & Psalms; General Index; Chronological Index.
Topics: Best books, Poetry -- Indexes, Religious poetry -- Indexes
Topics: Best books, Poetry -- Indexes, Religious poetry -- Indexes
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535; Robinson, Ralph, b. 1521; Roper, William, 1496-1578; Lumby, J. Rawson (Joseph Rawson), 1831-1895
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Topic: Utopias
Topic: Utopias
California Digital Library
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Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent
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xi, 330 p
California Digital Library
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Aeschylus; Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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xxvii, 3 l., [3]-187 p., 20 cm
Topic: Literature -- Collections
ASC copy: from the Yolton Library Rare Book Collection
Topic: Education
Topic: Education
Topic: Literature -- Collections
California Digital Library
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Paré, Ambroise, 1510-1590; Packard, Francis R. (Francis Randolph), 1870-1950
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The frontpiece is a reproduction of the engraved title-page of Johnston's translation of the works of Pare, 1st edition
Topics: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, Surgery
Topics: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, Surgery
Topic: Literature -- Collections
Topic: Literature -- Collections
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Topic: Rome
Topic: Rome
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"My purpose in selecting- The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing , recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about 22,000 pages, I was to provide the means of obtaining such a knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seems essential to the twentieth century idea of a cultivated man. The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty." The purpose of The Harvard Classics is, therefore, one very different from that of the many collections in which the editor's aim has been to select the hundred or the fifty best books in the world; it is nothing less than the purpose to present so ample and characteristic a record of the stream of the world's thought that the observant reader's mind shall be enriched, refined, and fertilized by it. |
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1 Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn
2 Plato, Epictecus, Marcus Aurelius 3 Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne 4 Milton's Complete Poems in English 5 Emerson. Essays and English Traits 6 Burns. Poems and Songs 7 Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Thomas A Kempis, Imitation of Christ 8 Nine Greek Dramas 9 Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny 10 Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations 11 Darwin. The Origin of Species 12 Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans 13 Virgil's Aeneid 14 Cervantes. Don Quixote, Part I 15 Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress. Walton, Lives of Donne and Herbert. 16 The Thousand and One Nights 17 Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Anderson 18 Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron 19 Goethe: Faust, Egmont, etc. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus 20 Dante. The Divine Comedy 21 Manzoni. I Promessi Sposi 22 Homer. The Odyssey 23 Dana. Two Years Before the Mast 24 Burke. On the Sublime; Reflections on the Revolution in France, etc. 25 J. S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle 26 Continental Drama 27 English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay 28 English and American Essays 29 Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle 30 Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc. (Scientific Papers) 31 Cellini. Autobiography 32 Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc. 33 Voyages and Travels 34 Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes 35 Froissart, Malory, Holinshed 36 Machiavelli, More, Luther 37 Locke, Berkeley, Hume 38 Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur 39 Famous Prefaces 40 English Poetry, 1 41 English Poetry, 2 42 English Poetry, 3 43 American Historical Documents 44 Sacred Writings, 1 45 Sacred Writings, 2 46 Elizabethan Drama, 1 47 Elizabethan Drama, 2 48 Pascal. Thoughts and Minor Works 49 Epic and Saga 50 Introduction, Reader's Guide and Indexes 51 Lectures on The Harvard Classics |
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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.n 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education."
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